2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

As their cruise ship steamed through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday morning the 656 passengers and 400 crew members aboard the MS.

2008 pirates chase cruise ship. File image of the Nautica in. The NAUTICA was on a 32-day cruise from Rome to Singapore when it was attacked on Sunday November 31 2008 in the Gulf of Aden. Almost 100 vessels have been attacked off Somalia this year which includes the capture by Somali pirates of the 330-metre Sirius Star carrying 2 million barrels of oil.

By Mail Foreign Service Updated. The captain ordered the ship to be brought up to full speed and the pursuing boat eventually gave up the chase. But according to Danish TV2 News six to eight armed pirates on two speed boats were observed speeding toward the Nautica a cruise liner that had set sail from Florida.

The next attempt came in November 2012 when several small boats approached Azamara. December 2 2008 227 pm. A newspaper in Oman published a report today indicating that a cruise ship approximately 15 nautical miles off Masirah Island east of Oman was aggressively approached by two skiffs suspected of belonging to Somali pirates on November 23rd.

Transocean Tours cruise ship was approached by two pirate speedboats while on the Gulf of Oman en route from Sharm-al-Sheikh to Dubai but the pirate boats were chased off by the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. NAIROBI Pirates chased and shot at a US. But the six bandits riding in two skiffs and firing rifle shots at the gleaming ship were outrun in minutes when the captain of MS Nautica gunned the engine and sped away a spokesman for the company said Tuesday.

Piracy off the coast of SomaliaFishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels. The vessel which was bound for Iran with a cargo of sugar from Brazil is owned by an Iranian company. Despite the cruise lines denials this attack was evaluated by our people and others with a stake in the game as totally authentic and it involved the approximate number of boats initially reported by ATHENA.

It was carrying 30 crew members though no passengers and after an eight-day standoff those onboard were rescued and the. CNN -- A 30000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend the ships owner said Monday. Oceanias Nautica is the second cruise ship this year to have been confronted by pirates this year.